THROWBACKTHISDAY; Malaysian Airline System Flight 653 is hijacked and crashes.

                            

Malaysian Airline System Flight 653 (MH653) was a scheduled domestic flight from Penang to Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia, operated by Malaysian Airline System (MAS). On the evening of 4 December 1977, the Boeing 737-200 aircraft flying the service crashed at Tanjung Kupang, Johor, Malaysia, while purportedly being diverted by hijackers to Singapore.^[1] It was the first fatal air crash for Malaysia Airlines (as the airline is now known), with all 93 passengers and 7 crew killed.^[4] The flight was apparently hijacked as soon as it reached cruise altitude and crashes in Tanjong Kupang. The circumstances in which the hijacking and subsequent crash occurred remain unsolved.

THROWBACKTHISDAY; makes it 38 years and TBT Blog remembers the victims.